'World' in the Bible

“He raises the poor from the dust,He lifts the needy from the ash heapTo make them sit with nobles,And inherit a seat of honor;For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,And He set the world on them.

“Then the channels of the sea appeared,The foundations of the world were laid bareBy the rebuke of the Lord,At the blast of the breath of His nostrils.

Tremble before Him, all the earth;Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

“He is driven from light into darkness,And chased from the inhabited world.

“Who gave Him authority over the earth?And who has laid on Him the whole world?

“Whether for correction, or for His world,Or for lovingkindness, He causes it to happen.

And He will judge the world in righteousness;He will execute judgment for the peoples with equity.

From men with Your hand, O Lord,From men of the world, whose portion is in this life,And whose belly You fill with Your treasure;They are satisfied with children,And leave their abundance to their babes.

Then the channels of water appeared,And the foundations of the world were laid bareAt Your rebuke, O Lord,At the blast of the breath of Your nostrils.

Their line has gone out through all the earth,And their utterances to the end of the world.In them He has placed a tent for the sun,

A Psalm of David.The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains,The world, and those who dwell in it.

Let all the earth fear the Lord;Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of Him.

For the choir director. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.Hear this, all peoples;Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

“If I were hungry I would not tell you,For the world is Mine, and all it contains.

The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind;The lightnings lit up the world;The earth trembled and shook.

The heavens are Yours, the earth also is Yours;The world and all it contains, You have founded them.

Before the mountains were bornOr You gave birth to the earth and the world,Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.

The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty;The Lord has clothed and girded Himself with strength;Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved.

Say among the nations, “The Lord reigns;Indeed, the world is firmly established, it will not be moved;He will judge the peoples with equity.”

Before the Lord, for He is coming,For He is coming to judge the earth.He will judge the world in righteousnessAnd the peoples in His faithfulness.

His lightnings lit up the world;The earth saw and trembled.

Let the sea roar and all it contains,The world and those who dwell in it.

Before the Lord, for He is coming to judge the earth;He will judge the world with righteousnessAnd the peoples with equity.

While He had not yet made the earth and the fields,Nor the first dust of the world.

Rejoicing in the world, His earth,And having my delight in the sons of men.

Thus I will punish the world for its evilAnd the wicked for their iniquity;I will also put an end to the arrogance of the proudAnd abase the haughtiness of the ruthless.

Who made the world like a wildernessAnd overthrew its cities,Who did not allow his prisoners to go home?’

“Prepare for his sons a place of slaughterBecause of the iniquity of their fathers.They must not arise and take possession of the earthAnd fill the face of the world with cities.”

All you inhabitants of the world and dwellers on earth,As soon as a standard is raised on the mountains, you will see it,And as soon as the trumpet is blown, you will hear it.

The earth mourns and withers, the world fades and withers, the exalted of the people of the earth fade away.

At night my soul longs for You,Indeed, my spirit within me seeks You diligently;For when the earth experiences Your judgmentsThe inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

We were pregnant, we writhed in labor,We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.We could not accomplish deliverance for the earth,Nor were inhabitants of the world born.

In the days to come Jacob will take root,Israel will blossom and sprout,And they will fill the whole world with fruit.

Draw near, O nations, to hear; and listen, O peoples!Let the earth and all it contains hear, and the world and all that springs from it.

I said, “I will not see the Lord,The Lord in the land of the living;I will look on man no more among the inhabitants of the world.

It is He who made the earth by His power,Who established the world by His wisdom;And by His understanding He has stretched out the heavens.

It is He who made the earth by His power,Who established the world by His wisdom,And by His understanding He stretched out the heavens.

The kings of the earth did not believe,Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world,That the adversary and the enemyCould enter the gates of Jerusalem.

“Son of man, wail for the hordes of Egypt and bring it down, her and the daughters of the powerful nations, to the nether world, with those who go down to the pit;

to capture spoil and to seize plunder, to turn your hand against the waste places which are now inhabited, and against the people who are gathered from the nations, who have acquired cattle and goods, who live at the center of the world.’

Mountains quake because of HimAnd the hills dissolve;Indeed the earth is upheaved by His presence,The world and all the inhabitants in it.